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Arctic archives from December 1997
Traditional knowledge in practice.
December 1, 1997... Northern organizations, governments, and governments-in-waiting have been formally and informally attempting to incorporate "traditional knowledge" into policy deliberations for some time. A public debate about this practice began in fall 1996,...
Ross's gulls in the central Arctic Ocean.
December 1, 1997... ABSTRACT. The central Arctic Ocean is difficult to access. As a result, the bird fauna of the area, with its potential input from all around the circumpolar perimeter, is still only little known. The present paper contributes observations on the...
Observations and predictions of Arctic climate change: potential effects on marine mammals.
December 1, 1997... ABSTRACT: Recent analyses have revealed trends over the past 20-30 years of decreasing sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean coincident with warming trends. Such trends may be indicative of the polar amplification of warming predicted for the next...
Heavy metal, organchlorine pesticide and polychlorinated biphenyl contamination in Arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parrye) in northern Alaska.
December 1, 1997... (Received 5 February 1997; accepted in revised form 11 August 1997)
ABSTRACT. Heavy metal and organochlorine (OC) concentrations, including organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (PCBs), were determined in arctic...
Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward's Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte's "An Arctic vision".
December 1, 1997... (Received 19 December 1996; accepted in revised form 12 August 1997)
ABSTRACT. On 30 March 1867, William Henry Seward, American Secretary of State (1861-69), provoked controversy both at home and abroad by signing the treaty that ceded Russian...
Distribution of stream macroalgae in four high Arctic drainage basins.
December 1, 1997... (Received 20 May 1997; accepted in revised form 18 August 1997)
ABSTRACT. Eighty-three stream reaches were sampled from four drainage basins in the central portions of Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere Islands. The streams included small snowmelt...
Sold American: the story of Alaskan Natives and their land, 1867-1959: the army to statehood.
December 1, 1997... SOLD AMERICAN: THE STORY OF ALASKA NATIVES AND THEIR LAND, 1867-1959. THE ARMY TO STATEHOOD. By DONALD CRAIG MITCHELL. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1997. Dartmouth College, Arctic Visions Series. ISBN 0-87451-748-6....
Sir John Franklin's last Arctic expedition: a chapter in the history of the Royal Navy.
December 1, 1997... SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S LAST ARCTIC EXPEDITION: A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY. By RICHARD J. CYRIAX. West Midlands, United Kingdom: The Arctic Press, 1997. (Available from The Arctic Press, 60 Sunnybank Road, Sutton Coldfield, West...
Cook & Peary: the Polar controversy, resolved.
December 1, 1997... COOK & PEARY: THE POLAR CONTROVERSY, RESOLVED. By ROBERT M. BRYCE. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Press, 1997. 1105 p., maps, b&w illus., notes. Hardbound. US$49.95.
Several years ago in these pages, Moira Dunbar of McGill University...
Alpine flora of the Rocky mountains v1: the middle Rockies.
December 1, 1997... THE ALPINE FLORA OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, VOLUME 1, THE MIDDLE ROCKIES. By RICHARD W. SCOTT, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1995. ix + 901 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., index, appendices. Hardbound. US$110.00.
As subjects become...
Arctic voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound in search of friends with Sir John Franklin.
December 1, 1997... AN ARCTIC VOYAGE TO BAFFIN'S BAY AND LANCASTER SOUND IN SEARCH OF FRIENDS WITH SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. By ROBERT ANSTRUTHER GOODSIR. West Sussex, England: The Arctic Press, 1996. (Available from Patrick Walcot, 60 Sunnybank Road, Sutton Coldfield,...
Harold Pfeiffer 1908-1997.
December 1, 1997... Harold Samson Pfeiffer died in Ottawa on 12 April 1997 from a stroke, following successful heart surgery. His well-attended memorial service was held in the Ottawa Unitarian Church. Harold was born into a socially prominent, well-to-do family in...
Tuktu and Nogak project: Inuit knowledge about caribou and calving areas in the Bathurst Inlet region.
December 1, 1997... AFTER AN EXHILARATING SPLASH INTO THE
RIVER, we threw on dry clothes and climbed
back into the boats to resume our search for
caribou. We had not brought enough "kabloonaq" food
with us, and a caribou would make the...
(Arctic Institute) annual report 1997.
December 1, 1997... EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHAIR'S MESSAGE
As the Institute's 52nd year of research, publication, teaching and service comes to a close, we celebrate our membership in civil society as an organization dedicated to the practice of...